Wanting to kill Baz Riley for being more of a nob than Steve Wright on the radio
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A|R:
You'd better get all these down before Alzheimer's kicks in... :p But you did dig up a few more for me... Smells:-
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I guess 2 sqn wasn't on the main side when you went through. You're young then.... :E |
when i visited all FOUR sqadrons of tonkas at Laarbruch.
when i did a 30 hour flying scholarship for the total cost of £13.54 taking over the (name escapes me) dogfighting simulator at coninsgby for the day - the one which had the 2 inflatable domes complete with airlocks. eating my first twinky (american confec.) at the USAF bowling alley at Brawdy Being interviewed by some Wing Co. re careers advice at age 14 years. "When i said relax i didnt mean slouch boy!" I remember when eating a Wham Bar would blow your taste buds and your ears simultaneously - and all for only 10p. TFC |
Buying tins of lighter fluid so that you could perform the ceremony of "burning the bedsprings" to get rid of the bedbugs in Masirah. Cadging empty tin cans from the mess, that could be filled with paraffin, one for each bed leg to stand in, to stop the ants climbing the legs. Tying chit chats to bed legs to keep the insect population down.
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More smells...
The smell of Africa very early in the morning on the airfield at Eastleigh and seeing some of the most spectacular sunrises ever [Eastleigh being at 5000'or so] The smell of Africa in the markets of Nairobi. Saying to your 'girl-friend', "smile so I can see you" Getting three people into the boot of a Wolseley 6/80 at Eastleigh to avoid paying at the Drive-in movie. Being surprised at how cold Africa can be at night [altitude again]. Being asked by Ops to 'remove that gazelle' from the runway'. The 'clear the runway' signal from Air Traffic, put into effect by said air trafficer yelling "Bang the gong" to an ancient African sitting by a CO2 cylinder suspended on a frame. It worked much better than the high -tech alarm bell they replaced him with! The Hastings which bounced so high on landing it came down on the grass and continued across the bundu! The speed with which the crew of a 58 Sqn Canberra vacated through the canopy after going cross-country at Eastleigh. The same by a Javelin crew at Tengah after departing the runway via that mossie ditch. The speed at which the lineys departed an engine start fire on said Javelins after first trying to put it out with a beret. Collecting a Javelin pilot walking along the road in Jurong after ejecting from his Javelin, and feeling sorry I couldn't meet his request for a smoke because I didn't.[It was his third ejection!]. Watching the air-flow over a Javelin wing on take-off, indicated by the moisture in the air. The smell at Gong Kedah after torrential rain had just flattened our tent. Watching "What's New Pussycat?" in reverse at Gong Kedah because we'd all seen it a few times.. Throwing empty Tiger cans at the vehicles which occasionally passed between the projector and the screen... |
The Sally Army canteen at Waddo
The YMCA canteen at Catterick The Mally at Gutersloh Sandes Home at Catterick Anybody notice a theme here? |
dkh,
Thats a seperate thread in its own right!! :ok: But here we go. The Twig at Catterick, The bowl at Greenham, Lady L's at Akr, The Pickled Onion club, our bar.. the Soldier Blue (christ, there must have been dozens of bars thgere). The Mally at Witt, Rugby club there on Thursday night too. The Scorpion in Catterick. Tea and toast in the cafe on Sunday morning in Catterick village. Smells then. Cheers AA.. you might just be right. I'm leaving a link to this thread for my kids in my will.
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Phoning the SAR flt at Lossie for a surf report after they landed.
The SAR flt at Lossie pulling some doofus out of the Moray Firth who got caught in the rip at East and ended up clinging to a lobester pot about 1/2 a mile out. It made a great show from the Hopeman?? IIRC, Getting attacked by Seals at Lossie who were surfing at the same time. |
Sek Kong:
Shaffi's curry house - try one on a Friday after the food's been 'marinating' for a week:\ The Duck Farm The Dog Section Games nights in the Mess at HMS Tamar with the Aussies Ned Kelly's Taking an unofficial visit aboard the QE2:E Chinese New Year Waving any scrap of paper you happened to have (bus ticket etc) at the Gurkha on the gate when you forgot your 1250 - and he'd let you in Finding that, no matter how trashed your room had got the night before, it was always immaculate in the morning, with your clothes laundered and put away...God bless the armah! Being able to live like a king on fg off wages Happy daze!! |
Barrack blocks at RAF odiham where in heavy rain the light shades would fill up with water (On the Ground Floor)
Rooms were about 20 people partitioned into 2 bedspaces with wardrobes in the centre to form a corridor......... Someone writing to Farmers weekly saying " I have a room XYZ in size, heated and well lit, how many pigs would you recommend keeping in the said room........ Answer published in Farmers Weekly was about 1/2 the number of number of troops installed in said room........ Copied and posted about the station, removed even quicker by SWO.. First experiance of Odiham straight from training, knocking on the hatch and been met by a really nice old gent who letting me in making me a nice cup of tea and enquired if I knew anything about Growing Tomato's ( SWO) |
As an apprentice at Locking in 1966, when the dentist was an Air Cdre..
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…when, in the early Seventies as the duty pilot at RAF Wyton, I watched as the first 8 aircraft to get airborne that morning were different types (not marks!) 6 of them were stationed there. In Squadron order:
Canberra (39 Sqn) Varsity (51 Sqn) Comet (51 Sqn) Devon (207 Sqn) Basset (207 Sqn) Victor (543 Sqn) JP (visitor) Helicopter (fuel uplift) |
9th November 1980:
Unusually, II Squadron had been moved in convoy to Germany for the annual NATO exercise rather than being dropped into Sennelager TA for the period. So that we kept our record of always jumping a drop was scheduled for this day at 1500hrs on West Wretham DZ in Yorkshire. To a man the squadron all had the same idea and kit was forced into every crevice of the road party vehicles and our parachute containers were filled with booze and fags... :D Beautiful jump... Bit of a rocky DZ but no injuries...90+ Rocks with sh1t eating grins are packing chutes and thinking how clever they are when the whisper comes down the DZ:- "Customs!!!" :uhoh: The gutsy amongst us wrapped the contraband in their chute and started to tab off the DZ. Others built cairns or buried the offending items. Vast quantities of petrol were expended returning to the DZ that night for people to try to find a bottle of Brandy or two they left out there. To this day I'm sure there is plenty of unclaimed contraband out there. |
FL575
51 Squadron-- Varsity--70's I don't think so, never had them, 151 had a couple at Watton I believe,(precursor to 51) but that was late 50's early 60's. Regards Den. |
AA,do you mean Norfolk? Hmmm... Most likely we were told the wrong name for the DZ... Now I wonder what it was... |
.... dinghy drill consisted of throwing an inflated single seat liferaft into the sea at Tobruk Beach Club, filling it with beer, red wine and coke and towing it out to the wooden raft for a raft party. Occasionally shouting orders back to the beach bar such as "Hey - Luigi - 3 more buckets of ravioli please!"
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Dennis, the II Sqn Parachute Jump Instructor, (PJI), in the late 70's/early 80's.
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Den,
A long time ago I know, but was not Varsity WJ911 used on 51 Sqn to train rear cabin crew? I just seem to remember it somehow, but I might be wrong. Somebody out there WILL know, I am sure |
"Beware Of Overstretch" posters were plastered everywhere
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